Google mingles Drive and Gmail for 10GB attachments Google is changing Gmail's attachment-handling capabilities to allow files from its Drive cloud storage service to be embedded directly in messages, opening the door to sending files as large as 10GB in a single email. "Whether it's photos from your recent camping trip, video footage from your brother's wedding, or a …
".....If someone tries to cc 10GB to 100 "recipients"...." Just think of the new DDoS capability - just send an email to all the email addresses for an organisation with 10GB of random pics grabbed off the Web and watch their email servers choke. We occaissionally get email bombed with relatively minor attachments of up to 10MB of junk, a 10GB payload would be nasty.
I've had a Gmail account from early on. I used to have my full name in the profile but reduced it to initials when they tried to rope me in to Buzz (whatever that was).
Now when I go to YouTube I get asked if I want to change my channel name to my real full name which they have kindly remembered for me.
I use the Ghostery add-on but the way things are going I will soon be using Tor for everything.
Anon 'cos Google will probably cross reference this post
We notice that you did not use your real name when you posted that message.
Is that because:
My Register account is for show or character.
My Register account is for a music artist of group.
My Register account is for a product, business or organization.
My Register account is well-known for other reasons.
My Register account is for personal use, but I cannot use my real name.
I'm not sure, I'll decide later.
*not really. I lied.
I wish Google would stop trying to mash their services together. It's all getting very confusing and I feel like they're trying to take over every aspect of my online life. Okay, I may have felt that a little even before today, but more so now!
And they're not really attachments per se. They're just attaching a link to the Google drive download. Much like grabbing the link for a file from your dropbox and emailing it to a friend.
"Well if the "attachments" are just a URL there isn't really a story because a file location could always have been included in any email, even prior to the Internet."
Yep, sounds like they are simply making it easier to get a link to something on your Google Drive when sending an email. I can't see what all the fuss is about.
Google are just trying to make life simple for you. Microsoft like to use the phrase 'feature rich'. It's all the same thing - a load of old bollocks. Now if you want REAL innovation take a look at those phones that have a dedicated facebook button. That's innovation right there. Something so simple and yet so highly innovative.
...and for those literaltards out there, I am being sarcastic.
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